pensieve wrote:
This documentary is on tomorrow night on Compass (ABC1) in Australia at 10:05 pm.
What if you were highly intelligent, but remained trapped within a disorder that made others see you as inarticulate, odd or disabled? This film explores the line between ability and disability by following four Australian adults who are autistic. James, Jeanette, Akash and Wendy tell us about their individual struggles to fit into a world they're not made for. Their stories include moving perspectives from their parents, siblings and children, and sobering revelations about how vulnerable they are. Filmed over three years, this is a gentle, candid and perceptive window into the world of autism.Preview is on the homepage:
http://www.abc.net.au/compass/Will let you know how it is tomorrow night. Might even try and record some and put it on youtube.
Some people have commented that they can't see the streaming video on the ABC website. It worked fine for me, and I'm in the US. I simply went to Compass, clicked on "Alone in a Crowded Room", and then clicked on the video.
The most interesting thing to me is how Jeannette felt so welcome with the communists, because they are such simple thinkers. I was an active communist when I was young, for the same reasons. I never actually went to prison for it though. Came close once or twice, but never actually got arrested. I was smart enough to see that commies in America hang you out to twist in the wind if you get arrested. Stick your neck out, they'll watch it get chopped off, and then laugh at you. Computer hackers are the same way-they'll turn you in to the cops if there's a reward.
I have found the American Right-survivalists, tea partiers, Constitutionalists-to be much less welcoming. I have gotten thrown off one of their forums already, and I was in deep doo doo from the day I joined it. Many of the Right are disabled vets, and America treats returning soldiers very poorly, and many of them come home with PTSD and are angry all the time. So if somebody's different, they get nailed down, very much a military ethos.
But yeah, all that sounds familiar, especially the part about not finding a bf/gf. I suppose the younger people have an easier time than older people.
03 May 2010, 5:46 am
